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The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobias |
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| H 4.25in x W 6.1875in |
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| In excellent condition, with small margins on all four sides.
Tobit had been taken off to exile in Babylon, where he had an accident that left him blind. Despite these afflictions he persevered in his faith. He sent his son Tobias to Media to collect some money owed to him by someone there.
The angel Raphael Joined him on the journey, and advised him to catch a fish and save its entrails. Again on the advice of Raphael, they broke their journey at the house of a relative of Tobit's, and Tobias married the daughter of the house, Sarah. He was able to cure her of a curse that had killed her first seven husbands on the wedding night by burning art of he fish's entrails. The newlyweds and the angel Raphael then returned to the home of the groom. Back home after his journey, Tobias used the remaining entrails of the fish he had caught and saved at the instruction of Raphael to cure his father's blindness. At that point Raphael revealed himself an archangel and took leave of the family. The old Tobit praised God for his mercy (Tobit 12:16-22).
Rembrandt made frequent used of themes from the book Tobit, especially in his drawings.
Original etching and drypoint printed in black ink on laid paper.
A sharp and clear 18th century impression of Bartsch's fourth and final state, Usticke's fifth state of seven,
Signed and dated inthe plate lower center Rembrandt f 1641.
Bartsch 43 iv/iv; Hind 120; Biorklund-Barnard 34-I; Usticke 43 v/vii
Printed after C.H. Watelet's inscription was burnished from the plate, but well prior to the late rebiting, probably printed by Pierre Francois Basan circa 1790.
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